Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 15:13:40 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: Steve Sizemore <steve@cmpharm.ucsf.edu> Cc: Sean O'Connell <sean@stat.Duke.EDU>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Are pipes broken in -STABLE? Message-ID: <3A6CBEA4.9A942CBC@urx.com> References: <20010122105801.A277561@cmpharm.ucsf.edu> <20010122140220.G57772@stat.Duke.EDU> <20010122111204.B277561@cmpharm.ucsf.edu>
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Steve Sizemore wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 02:02:20PM -0500, Sean O'Connell wrote: > > Steve Sizemore stated: > > : For the last week or so, all of the kernels that I've built have been > > : having trouble with pipes. Port extractions fail, makewhatis fails, > > : all sorts of things generate error messages. The simplest example is > > : tar - e.g. > > : # tar tzvf /usr/ports/distfiles/cfengine-1.6.1.tar.gz >/dev/null > > : > > : gzip: stdout: Broken pipe > > : tar: child returned status 1 > > : > > : gunzip, followed by tar xf, works just fine, so I don't think it's a > > : gzip or tar problem. Besides, other things fail which don't > > : (apparently) use gzip or tar, but do use pipes. And, not all pipes, > > : fail, but I haven't been able to determine what causes some to fail. > > : > > : This occurs on both intel and alpha. > > : > > : I have to believe that this is something local to my setup - I haven't > > : seen anyone else discuss it on the list. Still I've tried almost > > : everything I can think of, even dropping back to a GENERIC kernel, and > > : still see the same behavior. Right now, I'm re-cvsupping the sources, > > : and I'll try building GENERIC from virgin sources, but, in the > > : meanwhile, does anyone have a clue what might be the problem? > > > > Steve- > > > > Is this over ssh connection? I think something weird is happening > > with pipes and openssh 2.3.0p1 MFC. > > > > Not sure if it has been addressed or not. > > > > S > > -- > > Sean O'Connell Email: sean@stat.Duke.EDU > > Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences Phone: (919) 684-5419 > > Duke University Fax: (919) 684-8594 > > Yes, in fact, it is. I hadn't even considered ssh as a possibility, > since almost everything I do is over an ssh connection. I just tried > some things while logged into the console, and everything seems to > work just fine. > > Thanks for the clue. Now, who do we need to bother to get this > addressed? Well, the commits were by green@freebsd.org. It was a complete replacement from what I can see. We first noticed the side effect on the 14th. Kent > > Steve > -- > ----------------------------------------------#-----#--#####--------------- > # # # # > Steve Sizemore # # # > Dept. of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology # # # > Box 0450, Room HSE-1285 # # # > University of California Medical Center # # # # > 513 Parnassus Avenue ##### ##### ##### ####### > San Francisco CA 94143-0450 # # # > # # > steve@cmpharm.ucsf.edu ##### ##### > (415) 476-6987 FAX: (415) 476-6515 # # > # # # > -------------------------------------------------------------#####--#------ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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